How do you imagine 2025 ?

Inspired by Joseph Rozé’s 2025 journey along the east coast of the United States, during which members of the public answered this simple question: ‘How do you imagine 2025?’, this artist’s book captures the pulse of an America on the brink of change…

Beginning in Washington on 20 January 2025, the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration for his second term, Joseph Rozé’s journey takes him via New York and ends in the Southern states two and a half months later. The book brings together some thirty anonymous testimonies in which Americans reflect on their vision of the near future, revealing a collective imagination that extends far beyond their borders.

A distillation of contemporary fantasies, anxieties and hopes, the United States appears here not merely as a territory, but as a canvas for projection.
A portrait by the artist accompanies each interview. By shifting the image towards landscape, towards abstraction, and at times towards ambiguity, the work opens up a space for the imagination. It embraces the element of uncertainty and vagueness inherent in any projection into the future.

*How do you imagine 2025?* thus explores the gap between what is said and what is imagined.

A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2026, Joseph Rozé lives and works in Paris. His practice spans analogue photography and video. Alongside his studies, he has been active in filmmaking, directing several short and feature-length films, including *La Récréation de Juillet* (2024), which was selected for the official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

He was awarded the 2024 Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris Grant to produce the images for his project ‘HOW DO YOU IMAGINE 2025?’.